Imu and the middle-aged man in white had no idea what Lin Xuan was thinking.
At this moment, they were launching a frenzied assault, trying to buy the white-haired elder more time.
But even when the three of them had fought together, they had only managed to keep things evenly matched with Lin Xuan.
Now that only two remained, the pressure skyrocketed. Before long, both of them were covered in wounds.
Lin Xuan had no intention of stopping the white-haired elder from unleashing his ultimate move—but that didn't mean he wouldn't take the chance to beat Imu and the others into the ground.
"Thunder—Eighty Gods Vacuum Strike!"
Lin Xuan's figure vanished.
In the next instant, he appeared directly in front of the middle-aged man in white and drove his palm forward.
Countless bolts of lightning erupted, raging outward like a furious storm. The thunder roared, savage and overwhelming.
This technique had originally belonged to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
But after Lin Xuan modified it, its power had increased dramatically.
In the blink of an eye, the lightning exploded.
The middle-aged man's chest detonated. His body flew backward like a cannonball, smashing straight down into the Red Line below.
The impact shattered the continent for nearly ten thousand meters.
At the same time, Imu was already upon Lin Xuan, his massive sword cleaving down.
"Void Slash!"
Terrifying spatial power surged forth, like a grinding slaughterhouse. It shredded everything in its path as it swept toward Lin Xuan, as if it meant to tear him into fragments.
In an instant, Susanoo manifested around Lin Xuan.
Armament Haki flowed across it, and a black shield condensed in his hand. He raised it head-on, blocking Imu's strike.
Even so, the violent force exploded outward, crushing the surrounding space once again. A raging spatial storm blasted in every direction.
If anyone had been nearby, they would have been ripped into pieces on the spot.
Meanwhile, the white-haired elder's body continued to change.
His snow-white hair turned pitch-black.
His eyes darkened as well.
His once withered limbs became tightly wrapped in a dense black substance.
In that moment, black flames rose from his body—like a demon awakening from the depths of the underworld. The pressure pouring off him continued to climb.
Not far away, Lin Xuan fought Imu and the others while keeping an eye on what was happening.
"Good," Lin Xuan sneered. "I hope that move you've been preparing for so long won't disappoint me."
At last, the white-haired elder opened his eyes.
His gaze locked onto Lin Xuan.
He barked a single word.
"Die!"
His voice carried across the battlefield—cold, savage, and spine-chilling, like the howl of something crawling out of an abyss.
Among the fighters below, countless people shuddered violently.
It felt as if someone were using a razor-sharp blade to slice their flesh away piece by piece, sending a deep chill crawling up their backs.
Boom!
A horrifying force erupted in the elder's fist.
He punched forward.
The blow tore through the void itself, carrying an unimaginable aura of destruction as it shot straight toward Lin Xuan.
Faces across the battlefield changed.
Everyone could feel how terrifying that strike was.
Even Madara Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, and the others were shaken.
That single attack radiated such extreme danger that even their Edo Tensei bodies couldn't suppress the instinctive dread rising in their hearts.
"Then come on!" Lin Xuan charged forward.
For Lin Xuan, dodging the blow would have been easy.
Whether with Flying Thunder God or Sage Mode, he could have slipped away without trouble.
But in this moment, he wanted to challenge the absolute peak of this world.
"Let me see just how strong you really are!"
His Rinnegan appeared.
And he threw himself directly into the world-ending strike.
"What a lunatic!"
Even Imu and the others couldn't help but exclaim when they saw what Lin Xuan was doing.
They all knew how terrifying the elder's attack was—so strong that even they believed it couldn't be blocked.
And yet Lin Xuan was taking it head-on.
In their eyes, Lin Xuan was walking straight into death.
And doing it willingly.
Boom!
The attack was impossibly fast.
In the blink of an eye, it slammed into Lin Xuan's body, and the destructive power detonated instantly.
The energy around him became countless blades, slicing through every inch of him.
Wounds opened across his body.
Blood sprayed out.
"Interesting. It really is strong," Lin Xuan said, feeling as though every cell in his body was trembling.
After throwing that punch, the white-haired elder looked as if all his strength had been ripped away.
He was nothing but skin and bone now, even more aged than before—like he could rot into dust at any moment.
Yet on his gaunt, twisted face, a smile spread.
It worked.
That strike had burned away his own life force, completely forcing his body's power to erupt.
Its strength was so terrifying that even he had been shocked by it.
And now Lin Xuan hadn't dodged.
That meant there was no way he could survive.
To pay such a price in exchange for killing that monster…
It was worth it.
As for his lost life force, he wasn't too worried.
After this battle, he could rest and recover. With certain hidden methods the World Government possessed, he would soon be restored.
Ahead, the void continued collapsing.
Imu and the others grabbed the white-haired elder and fled into the distance, terrified of being dragged into the devastation.
But then—
From the very center of that terrifying explosion, a hand emerged.
Then a figure stepped out.
It was Lin Xuan.
Crack!
The sky above went silent.
That overwhelming storm of destruction rapidly shrank, compressing into a single point.
Lin Xuan lifted his palm and casually slapped.
And just like that—
It dispersed.
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